TABLE 2—
Capacities of Licensed Child Care Centers, by Area Racial/Ethnic Composition and Socioeconomic Status: California, 2000
| Very-Low-Traffic Area, No. (%) | Low-Traffic Area, No. (%) | Medium-Traffic Area, No. (%) | High-Traffic Area, No. (%) | |
| Total slots | 125 440 (16) | 446 103 (56) | 171 818 (21) | 57 173 (7) |
| Race/ethnicity classification | ||||
| Minority area | 51 622 (14) | 205 937 (54) | 93 230 (25) | 29 435 (8) |
| Black area | 2 307 (9) | 12 957 (48) | 10 085 (37) | 1 703 (6) |
| Latino area | 16 676 (11) | 86 694 (58) | 35 635 (24) | 9 543 (6) |
| Socioeconomic classification | ||||
| Poor area<<AU: By what standard?>> | 19 491 (11) | 103 061 (57) | 46 317 (25) | 13 528 (7) |
| Foreign-born area | 22 518 (11) | 100 965 (51) | 58 183 (29) | 17 574 (9) |
| Limited English area | 7 821 (10) | 43 007 (54) | 23 164 (29) | 6 188 (8) |
| Limited education area | 22 042 (12) | 105 531 (58) | 43 292 (24) | 11 616 (6) |
Note. Percentages in each row sum to 100. See text for descriptions of area traffic classifications and area socioeconomic classifications.